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Friday, May 8, 2009

Done! Done! Finished! For now ...

My first year of graduate school is over. It seriously almost killed me. At least, this semester did. Next year? I'm going to be all over time management. I'm going to start outlining and drafting and really changing my way of writing. I can't be one of those "write it all in one swift run" kind of a student anymore. I can change, right?

At any rate, Shabbat Shalom and thank you ALL! You've been here for me throughout this rough semester, and for the next month and a half I'll be all your's, 24/7. Until I go away to Hebrew immersion at Middlebury's Language School, that is.

On Jews

He has made a marvellous fight in this world, in all the ages; and has done it with his hands tied behind him. He could be vain of himself, and be excused for it. The Egyptian, the Babylonian, and the Persian rose, filled the planet with sound and splendor, then faded to dream-stuff and passed away; the Greek and the Roman followed, and made a vast noise, and they are gone; other peoples have sprung up and held their torch high for a time, but it burned out, and they sit in twilight now, or have vanished.

The Jew saw them all, beat them all, and is now what he always was, exhibiting no decadence, no infirmities of age, no weakening of his parts, no slowing of his energies, no dulling of his alert and aggressive mind. All things are mortal but the Jew; all other forces pass, but he remains. What is the secret of his immortality?